Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.